On January 9, 2019, Hima Das will become 19 years but this girl from Assam has already taken the world by storm and has become the next P T Usha in India. The country has been starved of an athlete of the stature of a Milkha Singh and PT Usha and this girl from Dhing village in Nagaon district of Assam has catapulted to fame after her gold medal in the 400 m final in World Cup U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland
- Only two years ago she wore spikes and did not know anything about sporting equipment
- As a child, she would help her farmer father in the fields and bring home hay on her head
- She wanted to become a footballer but on the insistence of her coach, she took to athletics. Her coach Nipon Das is with Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare
- She won the race by clocking 51.46 seconds but her personal best is 51.13 seconds
- When her coach asked her father to send her to Guwahati, all he said was hope she gets three meals a day.